Prologue The First Blackbird 1(16)
I A Faustian Contract in Reverse
17(76)
II "Manuscripts Don't Burn"
93(44)
III Year Zero
137(84)
IV The Trap of Wanting to Be Loved
221(58)
V "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me"
279(56)
VI Why It's Impossible to Photograph the Pampas
335(78)
VII A Truckload of Dung
413(66)
VIII Mr. Morning and Mr. Afternoon
479(84)
IX His Millenarian Illusion
563(48)
X At the Halcyon Hotel
611(24)
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